Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Jacqueline Gallagher paints refreshingly sexy zombies who float "aimlessly through life, but they look good doing it." The pieces in Gallagher's delightfully named exhibition, Of Melancholy and Monkey Business reflect the
Arts & Entertainment Peaches Christ Talks 'Mommie Dearest,' Faye Dunaway, and Child Abuse High-glamour child abuse, anyone? You are in luck. On Saturday night, Peaches Christ (Midnight Mass creator, All About Evil writer/director) will once again screen Mommie Dearest, this time in honor of its
Arts & Entertainment KQED, Rolling Stone Offer Previews of 'Tales of the City: The Musical' Michael Krasny today did a show on KQED all about the Tales of the City musical that's about to premiere at A.C.T. at the end of the month (they actually start
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Rickshaw presents a night of female-led, garage/shoegazy pop, featuring Vivian Girls, who are celebrating the release of their third full-length album, Share the Joy, along with Montreal/LA's No Joy,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Lily's Revenge at The Magic Theater We're going to say something that may not be so controversial , but we hope no one takes this wrong way: Every so often San Francisco theater really needs an injection of energy from
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>No Exit</em> at A.C.T. Praise be, A.C.T. has managed to pull another hit out of their collective hat by way of Canadian theater company Electric Company Theatre, whose new and totally original re-imagining of Jean-Paul
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SCIENCE: The saga of killer plants prevails at Conservatory of Flowers' new Wicked Plants: Botanical Rogues & Assassins exhibit, and tonight's after hours event, Plants Behind Bars, will provide an extra eerie take
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Three Sisters</em> at Berkeley Rep Chekhov plays all have certain themes and elements in common: love of work, unrequited love, suffering, aging, adultery, the etiquette of dealing with servants, educated people bored by the banalities of their circumstance.
SF News Local Actress Dies from Brain Injury After Fire Escape Fall The Chronicle reports that well-known Bay Area actress, Summer Serafin, died on March 18 at San Francisco General Hospital after suffering a traumatic brain injury, which had put her in a coma for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Lady Grey (in ever lower light) and Other Plays</em> at Cutting Ball Theater We're always glad to find interesting new work being performed around town, though we don't make it out to enough of it and the latest production from the Cutting Ball Theater, Lady Grey
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SHOP: Vintage fans can shop their heart out at the aptly named All Vintage Everything event, featuring a night of great vintage brought to you by Bay Area online and boutique vendors, further
Arts & Entertainment Hugh Jackman Coming to San Francisco to Sing Showtunes. We'll Say No More. Undeniably straight [*cough* - site NSFW] and proud actor Hugh Jackman just can't shake the Broadway bug, and he'll be coming to San Francisco in May to do a one-man revue of sorts!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>The Homecoming</em> at A.C.T. We consider ourselves intelligent people. We went to a good college, majored in English, read a lot of plays in our day. We even did some theater, and know our prosceniums from our
misc SFist Tonight MUSIC: Emily Jane White headlines a night of folk/pop rock at Du Nord tonight, along with Hélene Renaut celebrating the release of her new album, The Deer Convention, and Ed Masuga. 8:
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Ruined</em> at Berkeley Rep We knew from the title we weren't likely in for a cheery good time, but we went into Berkeley Rep's newest production, Ruined, without having read anything about it. The subject turns out
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Vision from the Life of Hildegard von Bingen, a lushly shot portrait of a 12-century Benedictine nun way ahead of her time, "who has emerged from the shadows of history as a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's the opening weekend of Catchy Name Theatre Company's Corned Beef, "a post-modern comedy of art with mistaken identity, triangular love and much popping in and out of doors." 8 p.m.
misc Locals Try to Bring 'Clueless' to the Stage Mission Mission brings our attention to a group of Mission locals who plan on brining seminal '90s flick Clueless, a brilliant Beverly Hills version of Jane Austin's Emma, to the stage. This could
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The lovable and "other-worldly" surf/new wave band, Man or Astroman? land at the Independent tonight, with guests, Austin's Octopus Project, "a group of young noise-rock musicians" who specialize in "blasts of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Expect to see "full-frontal puppet nudity" at Avenue Q, the hit Broadway musical about real life in New York City, as told by a cast of people and puppets through a hilariously
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Clybourne Park</em> at A.C.T. We take back everything bad we've said about A.C.T.. Well, almost everything. Clybourne Park is a great choice of play, for its edginess, contemporary-ness, and wit, and the current production up
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Tickets are still available to see the legendary Lemmy Kilmister annihilate the Warfield at tonight's Motörhead show. Also on the bill are Clutch and Valient Thorr. 8 p.m. // The Warfield (982
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: SF Sketchfest presents Airplane! Tribute to Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, the film's brilliant writing and directing team. Joining the team onstage will be their leading man Robert Hays ("Ted
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Roots Reggae masters, Midnite, who combine the cultural lyrics of "old school" roots music with modern sensibilities, bring their "epic musical communion" to San Francisco for two nights at The Independent. SF's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Need a pick-me-up tonight? Look no further than Kafana Balkan, who provide the biggest, "crazed Gypsy brass band dance party" in town, featuring "hundreds of swarthy men with dangling moustaches and pork-pie
